There will be a full programme of lectures, two poster HSJKAJBSJKAJSB sessions, opportunities to visit collections both in

London and elsewhere in the south-east of England

and a full social programme. The collections visited

Glass will include material on display in galleries and from

reserve collections. The visits to the latter will

naturally have constraints both on the numbers of

people who can visit and the times at which the visits

can take place. As a consequence, participants will be News urged to indicate which trips they are particularly

interested in when they make their bookings for the

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Reg’d Charity: 275236 ISSN 1362-5195 th Sunday 7 - Evening opportunity to register and You may notice some changes to the appearance of socialise th this Glass News, as it is the first issue that I have Monday 8 - All day lecture sessions th edited having inherited the role from John Shepherd. Tuesday 9 - Morning lecture sessions Unfortunately our computers wouldn’t cooperate with Afternoon poster session th each other during the handover and as a result a Wednesday 10 - All day visit to London collections th slightly modified version has evolved. Thursday 11 - Morning lecture sessions Afternoon poster session th 2003 promises to be an excellent year for conferences, Friday 12 - All day lecture sessions th seminars and symposiums on the subject of glass. As Saturday 13 - All day visit to collections outside of many of the deadlines or dates for these gatherings are London fast approaching, the relevant details have taken pride A post congress tour visiting collections in the south- th of place on the first pages. If you book and pay to west of England starting on Sunday 14 September is attend the AIHV2003 conference before the 1st of also being organised. June, you are entitled to a discount so don’t miss out! The website will be the main source of information Interesting articles, by Chris Welch, Hilary Cool and about the congress. If you would like to be placed on Colin Clark, are also included in this issue. You will an email mailing list that will notify you when the site find other articles on window glass, related to Colin is updated, please contact [email protected] Clark’s piece on Window Glass Manufacture in the Details of the congress may also be obtained by Weald in the previous issue of Glass News (no. 11). writing to: Dr H. Cool, Finally my contact details as editor are given on the 16, Lady Bay Road, third page and I look forward to being inundated with West Bridgford, material for the next issue, which is due out in the Nottingham. early summer. NG2 5BJ

AIHV 2003 IN THIS ISSUE

The 16th Congress of the Association Internationale pages 1 to 3 - Conferences / seminars pour l'Histoire du Verre will take place in London page 4 - Window Glass Manufacture in the from Sunday September 7th 2003 to Saturday Weald September 13th 2003 at the Imperial College of page 5 - British Glass Bibliography 2000-2002 Science and Technology in Kensington. page 7 - York Minster Glass from Staffordshire in the late 15th Century Participants who book and pay for their attendance by 1st June 2003 will be entitled to a Plus books and journals discount on their conference fee.

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Glass in the Islamic World:

New Discoveries, New Ideas

An all-day seminar will be held at The Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London W1 on 5th GLASS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD: March 2003 from 10.10am to 16.30pm. Manchester New Discoveries, New Ideas Square is north of Wigmore Street and Oxford Street, behind Selfridges; the nearest Underground Station is to be held at The Wallace Collection, Manchester

Bond Street (Jubilee and Central Lines). Square, London W1

on 5th March 2003 Lunch is not included. If participants wish to lunch at the Wallace Collection restaurant (tel. 020 7563 I wish to attend the above meeting and enclose a 9500), they are strongly advised to book prior to the cheque, made payable to The Association for the day, and the menu should be ordered on arrival, History of Glass, for the sum of £20 (or £10 with before the proceedings start. There are also proof of student status). restaurants, cafes and sandwich bars in the vicinity. Name …………………………………………... To attend the conference please complete and return the form opposite, enclosing a cheque for the Address appropriate amount. ……………………………….. ……………………………………….…

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10.10-10.40: Registration and coffee Send this form to: The Co-Organiser, 2 Usborne 10.40-11.05: Welcome - Introduction by Patricia L. Mews, London SW8 ILR. Baker 11.05-11.30: St. John Simpson - Cut & sparkle: the visual effect of Sasanian glass 11.30-11.55: Sally Worrell -Glass finds from Kush Museum of London excavations in the Gulf 11.55-12.20: Daniel Keller - Early Islamic glass from Archaeological Seminars the Finnish excavations on Jabal Harran near Petra, Jordan 12.20-14.00: Lunch (not included) Museum of London Archaeological 14.00-14.25: Margaret O’Hea - Umayyad to Fatimid glass: finds at Pella Seminars 14.25-14.50: Sarah Jennings - Tyre - a major mediaeval glass-making site Held at the London Archaeological Archive and 14.50-15.15: Ian Freestone - The products of early Research Centre, Mortimer Wheeler House, Hackney. tank furnaces in the Levant: from composition to technology and trade The Archaeology of Glass 15.15-15.40: Tea Saturday 19th April 2003, 10.30am-4pm 15.40-16.05: Judith Kolbas - 12th-13th century glass weights: the choice of colour and decorative motif Seminar Leaders: John Clark and John Shepherd 16.05-16.30: Rachel Ward - Technical developments Fee £50, concessions £35 (includes refreshments and in enamelled glass lunch).

The cost will be £20 (or £10 for students who provide To book please call the Museum of London Box proof of their status), to include coffee and tea but not Office on 020 7814 5777 (Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm) lunch.

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History and Heritage of Glass

In association with the Delegates who wish to attend the SGT Spring Society of Glass Technology and the British Society Meeting are welcome to attend the History & of Master Glass Painters Heritage Seminar. Delegates who wish to register for Friday 4th April, 2003 the Seminar only are also most welcome. The fee is £40.00 per person, inclusive of refreshments and a The Society of Glass Technology has joined forces light lunch. Members of the Association for the with the Association for the History of Glass and the History of Glass, the British Society of Master Glass British Society of Master Glass Painters to mount a Painters or of the Society of Glass Technology qualify one day Symposium on the History and Heritage of for a discounted fee of £35.00, and there is a special Glass. This is to be held on Friday 4th April 2003 as rate of £20.00 for students engaged in full time part of the Society of Glass Technology’s Annual education. Spring Meeting, full details of which may be seen on the website www.sgt.org or may be obtained on For further details or to reserve a place on the request from the SGT Office. The Symposium will conference please contact: begin at 10.00am and will end by 5.30pm. Nine invited papers will be presented during the day, but in Miss Sara Lindley, addition there will be opportunities for discussion and Society of Glass Technology, for Poster Presentations. The Organising Committee Don Valley House, wishes to encourage students and younger researchers Savile Street East, to submit relevant posters; past experience is that such Sheffield. S4 7UQ presentations and the discussions, which stem from Telephone: 01 142 634 455 them, considerably enrich the day. It is intended that Email: [email protected] both the Oral Presentations and the Posters will be published as Proceedings after the event. New Finds Invited speakers New Research

Peter Boland –Dudley MBC New Publications Charles Hajdamach – Broadfield House New Ideas Russell Hand – Sheffield University Martin Harrison – Author & Hon. Fellow of BSMGP Conferences Joanne Howdle – Barrow Dock Museum Neil Moat – DAC advisor for Durham & Newcastle REMEMBER Victoria Oakley – Victoria & Albert Museum Glass News David O’Connor –University of Manchester Chris Welch – English Heritage Tell us all about your news, ideas and discoveries. Topics will include: Send your contributions by mid-May to: Glassmaking archaeology in Staffordshire. Sarah Paynter, Glassmaking in the 18th Century. Fort Cumberland, Conservation of glassmaking skills. Fort Cumberland Road, Victorian revival stained glass. Eastney, Rediscovering mediaeval glass. Portsmouth. Glass and the arts & crafts movement. PO4 9LD Moisture attack on glass artefacts. Science and the durability of glasses. Tel: 02392 856782 ● Fax: 02392 856701 Conservation of glass photographic slides. e-mail: [email protected]

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Window Glass Manufacture in the Weald

Window glass was made in the Weald from at least growing local demand for glass to glaze the houses of the early fourteenth century, until manufacturing the ‘great rebuilding’, the largest market was London. ceased in 1618 following the development of a viable coal-fired furnace and the prohibition of wood fuel. At this time there were also significant developments Although vessel glass was produced here, window in the organisation of the window glass industry. glass manufacture assumed greater importance, Glass manufactured in the Weald was transported to particularly in the last fifty years of the industry. the Capital by ‘glass-carriers’ and sold to merchants from whom local glaziers obtained their supplies. Immigrants from Normandy and Lorraine brought with them their respective traditions of Crown and Sometimes this pattern of trade varied when, for Broad glass manufacturing methods which appear to example, a large developer bought glass direct from have been carried on side by side, although the manufacturer and employed local labour to carry contemporary documents usually refer to ‘brode out the glazing. Glaziers, who had followed an glasse’ (probably as a collective name for window itinerant trade in the Middle Ages, settled in glass). Coloured glass was at no time produced provincial towns forming local Guilds of Glaziers. commercially, and even in the fourteenth century, when glass for ecclesiastical buildings was in The last fifty years of Wealden window glass demand, Wealden glassmakers produced only ‘white’ manufacture are marked by exceptional stability in glass, to complement coloured glass imported from prices at a time of high general inflation. This, the Continent. combined with rising prosperity, led to an overall increase in the demand for glass and encouraged the Wealden glass was of the potash ‘forest glass’ type. use of larger glazed areas in buildings. Stability in The local sand is notably ferruginous and was prices was brought about by a number of factors responsible for producing glass having a pale yellow, including the improved skills of operatives, better green or bluish tint. The flux was made from the ashes working methods and increased competition between of selected plants and wood and has been found to be manufacturers. the most variable of the ingredients used in the batch. Analysis of glass fragments has revealed that A characteristic of glass made in the closing years of excessive quantities of lime were often unwittingly the industry is its thinness (1mm to 1.5 mm), which incorporated in the mix as a natural pollutant in the enabled a greater area to be made from a given ashes, causing a lack of durability and susceptibility volume of glass, and also contributed to greater to corrosion. As a result, the condition of surviving transparency. Thinner glass, with a greater liability to examples of Wealden glass is extremely variable, the breakage, was of concern to property owners but for poorest being soft and opaque and the best being hard glassmakers and glaziers it presented an opportunity and bright with little tint. Typical symptoms of for more business. weathering are surface pitting, a loss of transparency due to the development of an opaque coating, and By the 1580s, the industry was expanding from the flaking. Weald into other parts of the country, such as Staffordshire where wood fuel was available, to The end of the sixteenth century was a period of develop new markets. By the time the Wealden greatly increasing demand for window glass, not only industry was brought to an end, glassmaking had for new buildings but for extending the glazed area in become firmly established as a native industry, existing buildings and, where it was found desirable, making the nation practically self-sufficient in to replace earlier glass of poor quality with glass of window glass. improved transparency. On occasions, the old glass removed during upgrading was passed on for use in Colin Clark previously unglazed areas. Although there was a

Glass News Winter 2002 / 2003 4 British Glass Bibliography 2000-2002

This bibliography covers works on glass that has been There is a useful review by David Whitehouse (2001) found or made in Britain and more general books on of Rosemarie Lierke's theories about how many forms glass that have been published within the UK. Useful of Roman glass were produced. For an alternate view bibliographies that cover a wider geographical area of the production techniques, readers with access to are published annually in the Journal of Glass the Internet might like to look at the Roman Studies. A bibliography of French material is Glassmakers Newsletters produced by Mark Taylor published in the Bulletin de l'Association Française and David Hill. These are archived on the pour l'Archéologie du Verre. Readers are invited to Association’s website (www.historyofglass.org.uk) send details of publications for the next bibliography to Hilary Cool ([email protected] or 16 Medieval Lady Bay Road, NOTTINGHAM NG2 5BJ) Rachel Tyson (2001) has published the medieval glass in Salisbury Museum. This consists of approximately Scientific and Conservation 18 vessels dating from the 10th to 14th centuries, Two articles have been published in Archaeometry. mainly from the excavations at Old Sarum (1909- Freestone et al 2002 explores 6th to 7th century AD 1915), but also including two from Clarendon Palace. glass lamp fragments found in Cyprus by ICPMS and A small group has been found in a 13th to 14th century energy dispersive X-ray analysis and considers the context at a farm near Gillingham (Valentin and origins of the raw glass used to make them. This Robinson 201, 39-40). provides a useful overview on recent work on the origins of glass in late antiquity. Freestone (2002) has Post-medieval also published an exploration of enamelling on There are three useful new publications on 17th Islamic material. century glass. Jill Turnball (2001) has published a book examining the Scottish glass industry within the Roman and Early Medieval social context, exploring problems of low demand, the A summary of the vessel glass found during the shortage of skilled manpower, and changing patterns excavations of the Lanes, Carlisle has been published of consumption. A considerable variety of glass is (Price and Cottam 2000). The full report is promised shown to have been produced in Scotland, including in a forthcoming fascicule, but this to my knowledge broad and crown window glass, bottles and has not been published. A few scraps of 4th century apothecary vials, wine, beer and 'mortar' glasses and glass have been published from the signal station at other table glasses. Most of the material is entirely Filey, North Yorkshire (Ottaway, 2000, 126). A new and has been extracted from a wide range of small number of mid Saxon pieces appear in the primary sources ranging from family papers to the report on the excavations at West Hythe, Kent House of Lords. Hugh Willmott (2001) has a well- (Gardner et al 2001, 234). illustrated paper on Anglo-Dutch drinking glasses again setting the material within the social context. There are three relevant articles in a volume of essays He has also produced a book (2002) on 16th and 17th dedicated to Bill Manning and published in 2002. vessel glass, which will undoubtedly become a Denise Allen writes on Roman window glass and standard work of reference. A slightly unusual use of includes useful information about the experiments glass in surveying for the ordinance survey in the 18th carried out in its production by Mark Taylor and century is discussed by Brooks (2001). David Hill which were briefly reported on in Glass News 9. Jennifer Price reviews the use of mosaic Modern glass and shows that the technique remained in use for Susan Newell has two articles in the most recent longer than is sometimes appreciated. Hilary Cool Journal of the Glass Association. Newell 2001a discusses pipette unguent bottles and argues that their discusses the Regency glass services made for the 3rd context suggest they were an integral part of worship Marquis of Londonderry and his neighbour John in a mystery religion. Lambton and provides an appendix about the Wear Flint Glass company of Sunderland. She also has a useful section on how such services would have been

Glass News Winter 2002 / 2003 5 used. Her second article (Newell 2001b) provides a Price, J., 2002. ‘Two vessels from Llandovery, brief history of another Sunderland firm. Carmarthenshire and Piercebridge, County Durham: The same journal has a survey of uranium glass A note on Flavian and later polychrome mosaic glass (Skelcher 2001), a study of early 20th century painted in Britain’, in Aldhouse-Green and Webster, 112-31. windows on the west coast of Scotland (MacDonald Price, J. and Cottam, S., 2000. ' The vessel glass' in 2001) and a provocative view of trends in modern McCarthy, M.R. Roman and Medieval Carlisle: The glass (Robinson 2001). The whole journal, it should southern Lanes, (Dept. of Archaeological Sciences, be noted, is beautifully illustrated in colour University of Bradford Research Report No 1: ISBN throughout, and was most interesting even to an 0 9539628 0 6). archaeologist like me with limited interest in glass Ottaway, P. 2000. ‘Excavations on the site of the after the 5th century! Roman Signal Station at Carr Naze, Filey', Archaeological Journal 157, 79-199. References Robinson, M. 2001. 'Scratching the surface: a view of Aldhouse-Green, M. and Webster, P., 2002. Artefacts contemporary surface decoration', Journal of the and Archaeology: Aspects of the Celtic and Roman Glass Association 6, 69-72. World (Cardiff). Skelcher, B., 2001. 'Uranium glass', Journal of the Allen, D., 2002. ‘Roman window glass’ in Aldhouse- Glass Association 6, 38-47 Green and Webster, 102-111. Turnball, J., 2001. The Scottish Glass Industry 1610- Brooks, J., 2001. 'The ordinance survey and the use of 1750 (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph glass', Journal of the Glass Association 6, 21-3. 18: ISBN 0 903 903 18 0) Cool, H.E.M., 2002. ‘Bottles for Bacchus?’, in Tyson, R., 2001. 'Glass Vessels' in Saunders, P. Aldhouse-Green and Webster, 132-51. Salisbury and South Wiltshire Medieval Catalogue Freestone, I.C., 2002. 'The relationship between Part 3 (Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum: ISBN enamelling on ceramics and on glass in the Islamic 0 947535 21 7), 26-38. world', Archaeometry 44.2, 251-5. Valentin, J. and Robinson, S., 2001. 'A medieval site Freestone, I.C., Ponting, M. and Hughes, M.J. 2002. in Gillingham, Dorset: further excavations at Chantry 'The origins of Byzantine glass from Maroni Petrera, Fields 1990', Proc. Dorset Nat Hist. and Archaeol. Cyprus', Archaeometry 44.2, 257-72. Soc. 123, 23-49 Gardner, M., Cross, R., MacPherson-Grant, N. and Whitehouse, D., 2001. Review of Antike Glastöpferei Riddler, I., 2001. ‘Continental trade and non-urban by Rosemarie Lierke. Antiquaries J. 81, 426-7. ports in Mid-Anglo-Saxon England: Excavations at Willmott, H., 2001. 'Anglo-Dutch drinking glasses: Sandtun, West Hythe, Kent’, Archaeological Journal Comparisons of early seventeenth century material 158, 161-290. culture', Journal of the Glass Association 6, 7-19. MacDonald, J., 2001. 'Celtic saints, stormy seas and Willmott, H., 2002. Early post-medieval vessel glass good shepherds: the west coast windows of Douglas in England c. 1500-1670, Council for British Strachan', Journal of the Glass Association 6, 57-68 Archaeology Research Report 132. Newell, S., 2001a. 'The Sunderland glass services: a reappraisal', Journal of the Glass Association 6, 24-37 Dr Hilary Cool Newell, S., 2001b. 'The Hartley glassmaking inheritance in Sunderland: a brief history', Journal of the Glass Association 6, 48-56.

This is a high magnification image of a tiny glass thread, recovered from samples taken during excavations at the site of a 17th-18th century glasshouse at Silkstone, South Yorkshire. An article on this site, by David Dungworth and Tom Cromwell, will feature in the next issue of Glass News.

Glass News Winter 2002 / 2003 6 York Minster Glass from Staffordshire in the late 15th Century

A total of eighteen glass furnaces are known to have (although the value is not known), together with the operated in Bagot’s Park in Staffordshire from the sale of bracken to the works. This episode of medieval period up to the early 17th century. All glassmaking may be associated with a known these were largely destroyed by reclamation work in individual, Thomas Wakelen, described as a the 1960s, although not before one was excavated by glassmaker of ‘Ruggeley’ in 1479. 6 But on both the David Crossley in 1966.1 Sufficient remained of 1478 and the 1479 rentals that refer to the glasshouse fifteen furnaces to allow archaeomagnetic dating, the name of Edmund Bardall occurs, who is paying which has been carried out by the author and Paul 18s for a field called the Horsecroft.7 Linford of English Heritage over three years. There are possibly two late-13th century dates, but there The Edmund ‘Bardale de Bramleybutt’ of the York seems to have been a fairly intense period from the Minster accounts may have had no connection with middle of the fourteenth century until the mid- the Wolseley rentpayer Bardall, and the latter need sixteenth century over which thirteen furnaces were in have had no connection with the Glashows there. But use.2 Concurrently with this work documentary an Edmund Bardell is a witness to both a deed and a research has been carried out to complement the quitclaim of 1489 which relates to lands in Bagot’s fieldwork, and it is intended that the results be Park, along with Ralph Wolseley, the lord of the published in the near future. A group of documentary manor of Wolseley. In 1501 Edmund Bardell ‘de references are of particular interest, as they potentially Bromley abbotis’ witnessed a deed by which land was link a glassmaking area with its market. It has long granted to Thomas Harve (Harvey) ‘glasmaker’.8 And been known that a John Glasman of Rugeley supplied it seems reasonable to suggest also that the glass to York Minster in 1418-19.3 Rugeley lies a few ‘Bramleybutt’ of the York accounts might be a scribal kilometres from Bagot’s Park, and John could have mistake for Bromley Abbatis, or Abbots Bromley, the been selling glass from there or from the adjacent village between Rugeley and Bagot’s Park, which was manor of Wolseley where glass was made over a associated with the glassmakers throughout this similar period.4 period. The evidence is circumstantial, but strong, that glass from the Staffordshire industry was being Of interest here, however, is the Edmund ‘Bardale de supplied to York Minster in 1478. It would be Bramleybutt’, who was paid 14s 8d for sixteen fascinating to know more of the relationship of ‘tables’ of English glass for York Minster between Edmund Bardall with the glassmaking industry. There November 1478 and November 1479.5 It is known is no evidence that he was himself a glassmaker, but that a glasshouse was in use in Wolseley at precisely as a witness to the documents he was evidently of this period; a rental dating from November 1478 some standing locally, known to both landowners and records the rent of le Glashows as £7 6s 8d, and the glassmakers, and sufficiently involved to handle the following year rent for a glasshouse is again recorded sale of glass.

The York Minster sale can be added to the only other 1 D. W. Crossley ‘Glassmaking in Bagot’s Park, Staffordshire, in the sixteenth century’ Post-medieval known destination of Staffordshire glass at this time, Archaeology 1 (1967), 44-83 the church at Tattershall in Lincolnshire, and supports 2 P. Linford Bagot’s Park, Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire. the impression from investigation of sites in both 9 Archaeomagnetic Dating Report, 2001 (English Heritage, Wolseley and Bagot’s Park that the principal output Centre for Archaeology Report 17/2001); P. Linford and C. of the industry was window glass. Given the evidence Welch Bagot’s Park, Abbots Bromley, Staffordshire, II. from the archaeomagnetic dating of a period of Archaeomagnetic Dating Report, 2001 (English Heritage, Centre for Archaeology Report 87/2001); P. Linford and C. Welch, forthcoming. 6 Welch, op.cit., 2 3 J. A. Knowles. Essays in the History of the York School of 7 Staffordshire Record Office D(W)1781/6/3/2 (1478) and Glass Painting (London, 1936), 199 6/3/4 (1479) 4 C. M. Welch ‘Glass-making in Wolseley, Staffordshire’ 8 Staffordshire Record Office D(W)1721/3/5/3; Wrottesley, Post-Medieval Archaeology 31 (1997), 1-60 G. Collections for a History of Staffordshire vol xi, 1908, 5 York Minster Archives E 3/28; I am extremely grateful to 63; Staffordshire Record Office D(W)1721/3/5/8; I am Nigel Tringham for investigating this source. Saltzman grateful to the members of the Ranulf Higden Society who thought the local surname might have been ‘Bramley translated the deed and quitclaim. buttes’ (English Industries of the Middle Ages (1923), 187) 9 C. Welch, ibid., 35.

Glass News Winter 2002 / 2003 7 regular, if not continuous, output from the local industry from the fourteenth century until the mid- The Journal of Stained Glass sixteenth, glass must have been supplied in quantity Volume XXIV 2000 over a large area to a variety of glazing projects, but only the two at York and that at Tattershall have so The Journal of the British Society of Master Glass Painters far come to light.

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